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The Trump Administration Says Literacy Matters. Its Budget Plan Says Otherwise

Two months after Donald Trump swore in Linda McMahon as secretary of education, she named “evidence-based literacy” as one of the administration’s top three priorities. Yet the White House’s 2027 budget plan proposes cutting funding for some of America’s most vulnerable students by nearly 70% — from programs that create the conditions for children to learn to read. You cannot...
By Yolie Flores | April 28, 2026
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Flores: LAUSD’s workers deserve more — and the city’s 420,000 public school students deserve better

No worker in America should succumb to poverty-wages, be denied health care, or experience homelessness. And no child should be the victim of labor disputes. But that is exactly what is happening in Los Angeles – and the temptation is to pick sides as we see the tensions play out between SEIU and LAUSD. But...
By Yolie Flores | March 20, 2023